Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is to submit more than 20 planning applications to local authorities over the next five months for its £330M investment in waste-management services.
Many of the proposals relate to existing waste services sites, but the GMWDA also has plans to develop new sites, in an effort to stop the growth in Greater Manchester’s municipal waste, while ensuring half is recycled or composted and energy recovered.
Under its plans, the authority hopes to build two new ‘clean’ materials-recovery facilities to sort metal, glass and plastic in Manchester and Rochdale; a new biological treatment and anaerobic digestion plant in Oldham; four new enclosed composting facilities in Stockport, Rochdale, Bury and Trafford; and four public education centres in Bolton, Bury, Longley and south of the conurbation.
The current network of household waste-recycling centres and transfer loading stations would also receive a major overhaul. ‘We are proposing a world-class environmental solution, better-quality facilities for local residents who use household waste-recycling centres, and securing a huge investment in the local economy,’ GMWDA chairman, Councillor Neil Swannick, said. More than 100 new jobs are expected to be created by the proposals.